FATAH: The migrant pact was approved - and the sky didn't fall

Notwithstanding the hysterical campaign by often misinformed European and North American pundits and politicians, the much-maligned UN Migration Pact was acclaimed yesterday in Marrakesh, Morocco by nearly 85% of the member countries of the United Nations.

The sky did not fall as a total of 164 countries among the 193 UN members approved the non-binding accord to ensure safe, orderly and humane migration.

Last week in this space I wrote about how remarks by Dutch right-wing politician Marcel de Graaff spread like wildfire and was used by numerous folks with genuine concern about the future of Canada and other Western countries in the face of millions pouring over our border.

Elsewhere, in Sweden, a website with close ties to anti-immigrant groups published several false claims about the UN Pact. Among them was a petition claiming the UN text would “consider illegal immigration to be a human right”........